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This winter I got the opportunity to travel the world with the Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face. It was an amazing few months, jam-packed with travels all over the globe to Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, Courmayeur, Italy, Chamonix, France, Kirkwood, California, Fieberbrunn, Austia, and Verbier, Switzerland. The schedule was crazy, and the jet lag took a while to recover from, but the experiences of travel, freeriding, snow, and events were unbelievable. I cannot wait for what 2014 has in store for the FWT. Now I have a few free months...

Making a transition between the seasons is always an interesting shift for me. One day it is summer living, flying and riding as much as possible, from mountain biking to BASE jumping. Then, as what seem like a drop of a hat, I am smack dab in the middle of my winter rush. The 4-5 month rush of traveling around the globe, chasing snow, skiing, BASE jumping, and what seems like endless competitions with the newly united Swatch Freeride World Tour. Currently I am in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, where the snow continues to fall....

It’s been a while since I last wrote something for the blog. The reason for this silence was that there wasn’t much to tell from me as a climber – due to injuries and a resulting lack of motivation, in terms of climbing, this year has probably been the most boring one since I started with this sport some 16 years ago. Here is the story in a nutshell: 2012 started just as 2011 ended – with tons of snow, endless motivation for skiing and still a nasty infection in my heel that prevented me from wearing climbing shoes...

My first turns back on snow for the 2012-2013 ski season as well as my first turns on a rebuilt tib-fib. Seems appropriate that it starts out with a skiBASE, then some speedriding, then some actual skiing! SkiBASE is skiing off a really big cliff with a parachute- it's one of my favorite things to do, since it combines my two favorite sports, skiing and BASE jumping. And it's not super common that the conditions line up perfectly for it either! We got to ride the lifts at Alta Ski area a few days before the...

The benefits of shooting freeskiing, or any action sports photos, sometimes pays off by means of publication exposure. Sure, the personal satisfaction of getting a great image is a personal achievement and story teller, but when it gets chosen from publications editors for print within a magazine, better yet on a cover of a magazine, for the public eyes to see, it gets a whole bigger meaning. A big thank you goes out to Liam Doran Photography for the image, and Alta Ski Resort for the terrain, perfect snow, and opportunity to be one of their...

Getting to Northern Patagonia is not for the weak traveler. A 12-hour plane ride will get you to Santiago, Chile (from Salt Lake City, Utah) where the FWT athletes and staff cultured themselves by walking the city streets, dining on the local cuisine, taking in the Chilean lifestyles and enjoying true South American cervesas. But Santiago is only the halfway point in the travel adventure to Patagonia. Add a 12-hour bus ride and a two-hour van ride through dense rainforest vegetation in Puyehue National Park, and we finally reached our mountain paradise at the base of the Casablanca Volcano....